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There are seats for those who want seats.

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I am sure milling around is acceptable as
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I'm here to welcome you.

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I'm Crosby Kemper, the director of the Kansas
City public library.

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You are here and thank you for being here.

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We're honored to have the learning and libraries
conference, honored to have all of you distinguished

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guests in the library.

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I would like to say a couple of things about
the library and a couple of things about learning

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in libraries since I have the podium.

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A couple of things, I don't think we have
a scheduled full scale tour of the library

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so I just want to mention a few things you
should see.

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Obviously the 5th floor, this floor is worth
exploring.

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If the weather gets a little bit better, you
might want to go off on our rooftop.

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At 9  o'clock, the Missouri room will open,
it's a beautiful room.

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The third floor is our main reading room.

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The grand reading room and we think it's fairly
spectacular and on the second floor, we have

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our children's library which we also think
has something to offer and some color and

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imagination.

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You probably have gone through the main hall,
the library.

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Please go back to one north gallery, we'll
see an interesting exhibit called imminent

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domain.

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A photographer took pictures of a neighborhood
that was destroyed in building a large police

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lab.

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Kind of interesting.

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We have a second floor gallery that we have
opened with a local artist who is very interesting

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and on the first floor, we have a long time
publisher of our African American newspaper

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the call, which during the hay day was one
of the three great African American newspapers

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read around the country and there is a very
interesting legal story about her application

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to the University of Missouri which was denied
and the courts forced her to, the University

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of Missouri to accept her and then University
of Missouri, instead of actually taking her

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as a student paid for her to go to the University
of Kansas.

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A fascinating thing.

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And then our bottom line, what we call the
vault level, this used to be a bank building.

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We changed the vault in the lower level into
a film vault and you should take a look at

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that.

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It's a screening room.

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I do want to say something about learning
in libraries.

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It's the 50th anniversary of the report and
some of you may have been reading about the

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updated studies about it and the studies of
family break down which as it turns out, they

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were right, but he was right in a way that
he didn't quite understand at the time.

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Family break down is of course, not just in
the black family, it's in the white family

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and the Hispanic female as well.

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Robert Putnam, Charles Murray have written
books about what this means for us in essentially

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creating an under class in this country.

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There was talk about that in the 60s and we
have ignored that until the last few months,

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I think, but that's something important.

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There's a brand new steri in Harvard about
the neighborhood effect which relates to family

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break down and some of the other issues but
what is actually an extraordinary study because

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it shows growing up in certain neighborhood
regardless of class, eliminating class and

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income and race and education levels, where
you live makes it, if you are poor, makes

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a huge difference as to what your life chances
are, your future income, your mobility.

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It's interesting, I would just note one thing
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The bottom city, he looks at the largest 100
cities and their neighborhood effects.

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The worse neighborhood affect for your life
chances is Baltimore.

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The pew internet study has come out in April 
1st, with the study of smart phones and there's

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interesting statistics, 35  percent had smart
phones, 64  percent as of the measurement

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time of the current study have smart phones.

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Black and Hispanic smart phone ownership is
70 and 71  percent, higher than white ownership.

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Obviously it's related to education, 78 
percent of college graduates versus 52  percent

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of high school graduates, higher urban areas,
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and young people, in general, so particularly
young Latino and black kids are smart phone

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dependent and they have no other connection
to the internet except the connection you

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know about which is right here in the library
which is interesting he didn't mention it

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in passing.

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This mirrors the Google fiber study of Kansas
City, interestingly enough.

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There's very high usage in the inner city
of smart phones but here's some of other interesting

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stuff from the report and it mirrors what
we know in the library about this.

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People are using their smart phones for job
searching, but there is a decline and for

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information but there is a as you get to more
serious services, things like reaching government

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services, actual education classes, for instance,
or job application as opposed to job searching,

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the usage of the smart phone declines for
obvious reasons it seems to me.

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One quarter of all folks have suspended service
at some point which is also important and

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that's important because a couple of statistics
I'm going to give you in the Kansas City school

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district that we know directly right here,
our school district where the library is.

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So they rolled out a 1 to 1 computer program
this year.

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After they rolled out the 1 to 1 computer
program, very expensive, they discovered that

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70  percent if they read the study, would
have known this is coming but 70  percent

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of the kids in the Kansas City school district
do not have a home connection.

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So rolling out that computer was fairly meaningless.

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There's other things that have problems with
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of those kids have at least two addresses
during the course of the school year.

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This is mirrored in most urban school districts
by the way.

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Our superintendent by the way, you can see
in the paper today has just taken a job in

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Atlanta which is interesting.

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This is also one of the problems that those
who are in urban situations will know about.

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He has taken a job in a much larger school
district for a lot more money after having

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just, in the last year achieved accreditation
of the school district which was in accredited

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for a couple of years.

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He achieved that while reading scores and
math scores were going down.

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Inexplicable.

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The last thing I want to tell you is this
week in the library, we had someone this study

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family scholarly educational success, 28 nations
study that shows the most powerful correlation,

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variable correlation in academic success is
the number of books in the home.

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That's a proxy for something and not the thing
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We can just air lift books in people's homes
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cultural affects of book learning.

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The cultural affects of what she calls the
idea of pure preference which is the act of

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choosing a book, the act of choosing your
first book which may be the most, while all

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of these issues with neighborhood, class,
family structure is limiting affects but the

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most liberating affect we know is the choice
of your first book and the continuance of

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your reading.

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The anchor institution in our communities
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districts today.

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I'm not denying their importance obviously
but it's the position of libraries to build

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that culture, that learning culture.

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If there's anything we're trying to do in
this library and the library world is to build

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that learning culture.

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Libraries have a bigger and bigger role, with
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and big fiber broadband, et cetera.

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The gaps are getting bigger, the achievement
gaps are getting bigger, the access questions

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are getting bigger but the most important
thing is also getting lost in our debates

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about computer learning and that is, we know
that there's a certain culture of what she

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talks about as imagining richness, cognitive
school development and ultimately the creation

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of an imaginative world for children and ultimately
for adults that opens their minds to the world

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and that's the single most important thing.

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I think all of the research we're seeing leads
into the conclusion that what you're doing

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today is very important.

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Thanks for being in the Kansas City public
library.

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Good morning and thanks so much to Crosby
and his team for allowing us to have this

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event here today at the Kansas City public
library.

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I'm Robin and I'm the associate director for
library services at IMLS and I'm here on behalf

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of acting director Maura who could not join
us as well as the colleagues who you see throughout

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the room and you'll meet throughout the day.

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I would like to welcome you throughout the
event and we're thrilled to have you here

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and join us.

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I want to express the gratitude for the time
and the investment you have putting in here.

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We know you have busy schedules and we're
grateful you are spending it with us and participating

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with us today.

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I would like to say welcome to those who are
using the live stream, we had 800 people last

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year and more than 400 at the national digital
platform convening which was held approximately

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two weeks ago the DC library.

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If you're remote, you can actively participate
via twitter.

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The hash tag today is hash tag, IMLS focus.

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We'll be monitoring the tweets and fielding
the questions.

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We'll feed it to the moderators so you still
have the opportunity to participate even though

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you can't be in the room with us today.

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This is the second of three such conveniences
that are being held over six weeks this spring

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with a goal of having a national conversation
about shared priorities.

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This is also the second year we're holding
these conveniences.

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We found it e norm lousily helpful last year
to bring a group together like this and form

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our strategic priorities and grant making.

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This affects not just the national but also
our Laura Bush 21th century.

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We need to consider how we prepare the library
staff to honor these learning experiences

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through academic programs, professional development
and continuation and research.

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That's our focus of our afternoon conversation.

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Your contributions today will help us do our
work.

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It helps in turn make us smarter and make
more strategic discussions about the great

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making in order to make to support the services
for the American people.

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So that's why we really have invited you here
today.

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We want you to help us think about what those
priorities are.

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As we look ahead to our 2016 funding, we actually
take those recommendations and place them

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into our notice of funding opportunity and
I think you'll see some of the results of

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the 2014 event in the 2015 notice of funding
opportunities we had this year.

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We're counting on your active participation
and I'll reiterate that a little bit later

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to make today's convening a success.

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So we're focused today particularly on learning
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We understand it to encompass all of the things
that libraries are doing today in the shift

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away from a very book centric focus and to
a knowledge and learning centric focus that

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takes on the community needs.

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The hands on manifestations such as making
and other learning are but a few examples

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of the kinds of learning opportunities being
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I would also argue this shift has been coming
quite quickly in the last few years and it

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is not limited to public libraries.

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In fact, last year our colleagues Susan who
from the North Carolina state library has

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said that we have been creating learning spaces
and information comments and different kinds

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of places and spaces for several years and
an example of that is her own library.

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So we have very much to learn from each other
and I think you'll see that diversity reflected

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in the room today.

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Through discretionary program, with have invested
millions of dollars through a broad umbrella

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of learning libraries.

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We have moved towards funding, learning based
projects that have the greatest prospect of

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having broad national impact.

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We have also broaden how we have been thinking
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Though in 2012 and 2013 we worked with the
McAuthor foundation to help design a plan

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and create learning labs across the country.

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We're now focusing less on the space itself,
learning spaces themselves and building more

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on what we know and helping both libraries
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For example, we're interested in professional
development and training that focuses efforts

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out ward to benefit the greatest number of
people and libraries.

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This is something to keep in mind as we move
forward today.

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So let me take a few moments and share some
of the investments that IMS has made that

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fall in the themes we are discussing today.

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So in participating learning, making and learning
museums and libraries, a project bringing

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them together including the Pittsburgh childrens
museum, the San Francisco explore, North Carolina

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state, the Chicago public library and the
maker education initiative.

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This project aims to give professionals with
a suite of tools and services, hands on professional

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development experiences and a community of
practice.

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The project's website and online publication
will share the frame work, maker space studies,

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research and evaluation reports as well as
resources for field wide replication.

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In early learning, we have prescription for
success and reach out and read.

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This project will survey best practices in
partnerships supporting early learning and

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run pilots in three states, Connecticut, South
Carolina, and Colorado.

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For digital inclusion we have the open E books
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This aims to provide museum and library professionals
with a suite of materials and resources, hands

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on professional development experiences and
also a community of practice.

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The projects website and online publication
will share the frame work maker space studies

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research and evaluation reports as well, also,
field resources for field wide replication

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and then finally, we have the adult programming
and workforce development and the U.S. department

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of labor and training have been working together
to highlight effective practices in the workforce

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investment system and public libraries.

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They are also collaborating with the United
States citizen and immigration services to

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help libraries provide accurate and useful
information about immigration and citizen

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benefits and promote an awareness and ensure
the integrity of the immigration system.

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So with all of that in mind, I want to launch
us into our day, we have a very ambitious

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agenda and a room of deep experience.

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Several people are here to recognize a few,
we have the American association for school

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libraries, the association of research libraries,
the coalition for networked information, the

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chief officers of state agencies, the urban
libraries council, pure research, just to

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name a few.

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This is a final reminder.

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I said I would reiterate this that we're really
looking for active contributions and discussion

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from each of you today.

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Whether we're doing a presentation or full
participation, active participation from your

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chairs today.

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Really quick housekeeping, there are charging
stations for your laptops both under the large

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picture here and at the back of the table.

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The restrooms are out the door straight past
the hall, we have food and refreshments availability

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outside here.

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We're in the process of setting up a small
conference room in case you need to make a

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private phone call and need a quiet area.

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If you have need for that, please talk to
the people in the back of the table.

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Finally, if you need to leave and go straight
to the airport and need to arrange for a taxi,

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please see our friends and they will arrange
one for you.

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It's not an environment where you can walk
out and hail a cab, one will need to be paged

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for you, all right?

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Final bit, because we're web casting today,
I want to remind you please, both to use the

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microphones.

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We'll have people who can bring microphones
around to you before you start speaking, please

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introduce yourself, providing your name and
the organization that you're representing.

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All right, and with that, I would like to
introduce our first session this morning and

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to do so, I would like to introduce John who
will be our moderator for the first session

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and if we can have the entire first panel,
join us up here, thank you!